I use a 3 line white electric rope, that came with the new acres!---The bottom rope is about 18" from the ground,--middle rope is 36", and top is about 48" to 50" or so! Last year they came up to it and went along it without jumping it. I think they see the white rope, (the larger diameter size) and kind of avoid it! ---The charger is a small one for 20 miles of fence, so it has a kick to it that you would not believe.I would love to have a 7 foot high tinsel electric boundary fence, but that is out for now!--Rabbits and robins are our biggest problem right now! thanks; sonny

We have a lot of Deer, but I think the dogs are running them off. I use an electric fence mostly for Coons. I run about two miles one strand about eight in. above the ground and the other 24â€. I guess Iâ€™m lucky so for not having Deer damage.

I like Sonnyâ€™s set up. They probably see the white rope at night.

I’m really good at doing nothing…With that said…I’m really, really good at doing nothing

Thanks for the replys. Was in garden today, deer eating our new red rasberry plant leaves, I use an electric fence to keep raccoon out of sweet corn, one wire eight inches one at sixteen inches. Last year I had to put wire mesh over our redbeets , endive, and lettuce or we would have lost it all. Neighbor raises several acres of strawberries, and this year he got a nuiscance permit to shoot 5 deer. The deer are already eating his strawberry plants. This is a big cash crop for him. I think I am going to try the electric fence first and see if that works. Bill

Thats funny right off the AC line huh? I had a buddy that had stray dogs digging up his landscaping, he put wire around everything and being cheap he hooked it to a neon sign transformer he had lying around, yee hah! They don't put out all that much more voltage than a fence charger but a lot more current since they don't have the current limiting controls a charger has. he only kept it plugged in at night until one day he went to work and forgot. When he got home he noticed he left it plugged in. Then he hears a slight arcing sound out in the yard. Investigating he finds a neighbors cat with one paw over the wire fried stiff. A swift burial and denial ensued, no he hadn't seen their cat and had no idea where he went, to keep the peace.

I read somewhere that dogs wolfs coyote and such require around 8000 volts to start a shock through their coats. I have a Parmark Mark IV charger to keep the dogs in and it has about 8K volts of "guard voltage", they don't touch the fence a second time at least the smart ones don't.

If the electric fence doesn't work try any 30 cal. or buckshot might get you two for one. Just kidding.

One time years ago the deer were eating my dad's peas. He had tried things like soap, maybe hair and I think perfume. I told him to try what I did one time to keep the neighbor's cat from using a planter for a litter box. Someone told us to put mothballs in the planter. Worked like a charm. My dad decided why not. He got two boxes of moth balls and we went around the perimeter of the pea patch throwing them out. No more deer from that point on. Give it a try. I don't know how much mothballs cost today, but it would be easy thing to try.

I tried CD's on fish string. The had to be high in the garden, and they worked fine until the wind blew them off.I will be tying them to the fruit trees this year. The other thing that works real good is LUCY TO GREAT GRAND DOG.